2. CONTENTS
- History
- As Occupation
- Styles
- Advantages Of Swimming
- Risks Of Swimming
- Questions
3. Swimming is a movement through water using
one’s limbs and usually without artificial
apparatus.
Swimming is an activity that can be both
useful and recreational.
4. History
Swimming has been known since prehistoric
times; competitive swimming in Europe started
around 1800, mostly using breaststroke.
5. As occupation
• Swimming is used to rescue
other swimmers in distress.
Swimming also has military
purposes.
• Military swimming is usually
done by special forces, such as
Navy SEALS. Swimming is also
a professional sport.
6. Styles
A style is also known
as a stroke. "Stroke"
can also refer to
a single completion of
the sequence of body
movements repeated
while swimming in the
given style.
7. Advantages of swimming
The functioning of the heart and circulatory affected
positively.
The increase in metabolism, stress and resistance of
water during bathing have a significant effect on the heart
and circulatory system It increases the functional capacity
of respiratory muscles.
Swimming is directly linked to adequate and regular
supply of oxygen.
Good breathing technique strengthens the respiratory
muscles.
8. Risks of swimming
There are health risks and dangers associated
with swimming.
Most recorded drownings fall into one of three
categories:
* Panic where the inexperienced swimmer
or non swimmer becomes mentally
overwhelmed by the circumstances of their
immersion.
9. Risks of swimming
* Exhaustion, where the person is unable to
sustain effort to swim or tread water.
* Hypothermia, where the person loses
critical core temperature, leading
tounconsciousness or heart failure.
* Less common are salt water aspiration
syndrome where inhaled salt water creates foam
in the lungs that restricts breathing, and
hyperventilation.
10. Swimming: an individual sport
Swimming is mostly an
individual sport, there is no team
involved in it as there is in football.
Swimmers compete as
Individuals in competitions, and
their fate relieson their own hands,
not the coach,not the “team” mates
but their own.
11. A very competitive sport
The aquatic sport of swimming involves competition
amongst participants to be the fastest over a given
distance under self propulsion.
The different events include 50, 100, and 200
yards/meters in breaststroke,freestyle, backstroke and
butterfly,
Regulation swimming pools are either 25 or 50 meters
or yards across. Racing or training from one side to the
other is known as a lap regulation private pools tend to
be 25 meters/yards long and Olympic competition is
always in fifty meter pools.
12. REWIEW
- History
- As Occupation
- Styles
- Advantages Of Swimming
- Risks Of Swimming
